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Resource | 18.02.2023

A GCSE final year pupil has just had moderate sensori-neural deafness identified. Can the school apply for extenuating circumstances? 

Resource | 12.10.2023

Access arrangements documents (BATOD Statutory assessment and examination access working group)

Resource | 27.11.2024

BATOD Accrediated Language Modifiers (BALMs)

Resource | 15.03.2022

BATOD Tier 2 Online Language Modification

Resource | 15.01.2024

BATOD’s role in examinations and testing

Resource | 12.10.2023

Bluetooth hearing aids and exams

Resource | 25.06.2023

Can a candidate leave the exam room before their extra time is complete?

Resource | 18.02.2023

Can a deaf student be disapplied from GCSE English exams?

Resource | 27.11.2024

Can a learner’s regular 1:1 CSW provide support during an exam?

Resource | 28.03.2023

Can the Communication Professional (CP) access arrangement (AA) be applied for learners in England who use SSE?

Resource | 15.12.2022

Can the Communication Professional (CP) sign the carrying words of questions?

Resource | 15.02.2023

Command words

Resource | 29.11.2017

Enquiries about Access Arrangements in MFL

Resource | 07.10.2024

Examination Access for candidates with MSI – new briefing document by Seashell and NatSIP

Resource | 13.02.2023

Examination access for children and young people with sensory impairment (Feb 2023)

Resource | 10.09.2024

Examination language feedback form

Resource | 15.02.2023

Exams and Access Arrangements specific to deaf learners webinar Q&A

Resource | 13.05.2024

Exemptions

Resource | 15.02.2023

GCSE English Language – Spoken Language Endorsement; advice to teachers

Resource | 13.12.2020

Guidance for writing accessible examination questions (BATOD)

Resource | 22.11.2023

Handbook for Language Modifiers (2023)

Resource | 29.04.2023

How can CSWs be confident in exams?

Resource | 17.10.2023

How should teachers support pupils in Year 6 SATS spelling test?

Resource | 18.02.2023

How would a QToD make a case for the student being able to reply to some questions in BSL (not just single words), and his language modifier to act as a scribe?

Resource | 02.09.2024

JCQ ‘Access Arrangements and Reasonable Adjustments regulations for 2024-25’

Resource | 25.06.2023

JCQ guidance ‘Instructions for conducting examinations’

Resource | 13.02.2023

Language of Examinations 3rd edition (BATOD)

Resource | 29.09.2021

Online Language Modification Tier 1

Resource | 15.10.2022

Passport to Access

Resource | 15.01.2024

Query –  Should schools order modified language papers or will these have been checked by BATOD before being sent out?

Resource | 15.01.2024

Query – Should all staff who might need to sign papers aim to be doing a language modification course?

Resource | 18.02.2023

Query about the multiplication tables check (MTC) – a test, statutory from 2022, in England

Resource | 19.10.2023

Read Aloud – do you know about this access arrangement and when it can be used?

Resource | 13.10.2023

SATS – Is the value of the qualification affected by the use of the ‘compensatory mark’?

Resource | 15.02.2023

Should invigilators have signing skills?

Resource | 18.02.2023

Staff have been told the students are not allowed to have their usual classroom assistant with them as this is not ‘best practice’. As a QToD, how can I challenge this decision professionally?

Resource | 26.08.2024

Subject teacher as the live speaker (reader)

Resource | 18.02.2023

Wording is sometimes inaccessible on assessments for primary aged children. What involvement does BATOD have with their production?